Twelve year old Rachel and her family hope that President Roosevelt will end the Great Depression. Her mother died years ago and Rachel is encouraging a relationship between her pop and Mess Mitzi at the local flower shop. Pop cannot find work in town so he moves the family to a fixer-upper farm upstate. He then must leave Rachel and her younger brother and sister alone on the farm as he joins a road crew. The school and library are closed because of hard times and Rachel uses her imagination, creativity, hard work, and correspondence with Miss Mitzi to make their farm a success.
Mark Twain Award preliminary Nominee 2013-14
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